SPECIAL Christmas services will be held at St Thomas's Church, in Longford, over the festive period.

Families are invited on Sunday for a Children's Christingle service at 4pm.

On Christmas Eve there is a midnight mass service from 11pm which will include carols by candlelight and the blessing of the crib.

The Christmas Day family mass service is at 10am and on Sunday, December 30 there will be a traditional Nine Lessons and Carols service at 4.30pm with the churches of Longford, Alderman's Green and Exhall.